The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-07-27
July 2hth 1881.

hatileiy, the western and Atlantic
hale Rode, and Uncle Joseph
Browns connection with the same.
| thought | would right you these
few lines and find out what you
thought the atlanta Constitution"
was goin to make the State do
about this matter of betterments
alluded to in Uncle Joseph's letter
to Governor Gordon. Uncle JOS
eph took charge of this road in -
70, for the term Of twenty years
now right here, I want to ak you a
question-do you think Uncle JOS
eph took this road to keep the state
from havin a white Elephant on.
their hands? or do you think he
took it in order to have thu equiv,
llent of a United States mint on
his hand? l know every body
says Uncle Joseph is a mighty pa
triotic citizen, and / reckon he is,
but that waz too mulch Elephant
for one little man to try to manage
all for the good of his country.
Some folks seem to think that
Uncle Joseph hired this road and
paid plenty for it, just like you
would do if you wuz to hire horse
and buggy from Marshall & Alex
ander, while others claim that he
got it on mighty nigh the same
terms that MIR. Turner Lewis gifts
Jack Riley's Texas pony and bug.
gy when he wants to take a free
ride-but it is too late to be kicks
ing about the price now, for near>
ly eighteen years of the twenty is
gone, and if he did git the road on
i
good terms he done no more than
any other man would er done.
From what Uncle Joseph says,
when he got this road it must er
bin in about stitch ficks as the gray
mare that Tom Loyless got from
Mr.. Jack Riley, and Uncle Joseph
not bein able to use it in stitch
condition went to work an put it
in tip top order, and it is for this
order that Uncle Joseph wants to
tap the States treasury.
Now Mr.. Editer, l want to Ak
you another question, for / suppose
you will know all about it, if you
don't you are in a bad ficks, for in
these days on times a Editer is
spected tc know every thing that is
and great many things that amt |
nor never will be, the question is
this-If you had a poor horse, |
worth 800 in the spring of the
year when creturs is high, and
you decided that you did not want
to sell him but hired him out for
$40 for the year, in the course Of
which time the man gifts him fat,
and when he goes to turn the horse
over to you in the fall of the year
he amt worth mo more than he VIII
as poor horse in the spring,
but the man says you, you
must pay me for fattenin this
horse, or will let him git poor
before the tust of January-what
would you do. If you paid him !
for betterments you would be a
heap fiusher than / think you is. !
Uncle Joseph says if old Georgia
don't pay him, for them better
ments, he is going to commence
and run the rode down, Well we
hain't never seen Uncle Joseph |
running anything down in his POS
session., but if he succeeds at that
half as well as he does at running
Uncle Joseph up, you would have
to try it twice to git from Atlanta
to Chattanooga in 1890. DR.. FELTON,
says the road could have bin leas-
ed tor $4,000, 90 month In 1870
and the doctor scarcely ever makes
a statement that he kant prove,
and if he kant the Mrs. Doctor
can. Whatwill it bring now? I
don't suppose Uncle Joseph will
claim the development of the
country, which certainly ought to :
increase the value of the road, but
givin the State credit for the in.
creased local trade of the road, it
amt worth as mulch now as IL wuZ
in 1870. But Uncle Joseph wants
a hand in the treasury and he will
have to have it, He is the pillar
of the State, powerful good man,
and to refuse him 2 or 3 million
dollars to add to the 5 or 6 mil
lions be is already got would nos
be shown Uncle Joseph any graft
tude for the kind manner in which |
he has conducted the ship of State
through MANY perilous storms and |